Senior Backend Engineer, Platform & IntegrationsBJAK · United Kingdom

Senior Backend Engineer, Platform & Integrations

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-28 United Kingdom Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 6,250 GBP–8,750 GBP/mo

About the Company

The original mission of BJAK is we believe people deserve smarter ways to plan, save and grow their money. This is the origin of our name. Started in 2019, we built the first mobile-first, insurance platform, enabling insurance to be accessible online by millions in the region. Today, its the leading insurance platform in Southeast Asia. Today, we are expanding ways to help people in the region - this includes spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more. Our mission is help people get more from their money every day. We have teams working around the world, with over 20 nationalities from our offices and remotely, who truly enjoys their work.

About the Role

We are looking for backend engineers to build the core systems behind BJAK's AI Finance Agent. This role is for engineers who can build reliable APIs, workflows and financial product infrastructure that can scale across markets, partners and millions of users.

Responsibilities

  • ● Build the system that connects to multiple insurance providers and requests quotes from all of them at once
  • ● Design how those quotes get compared fairly and ranked for the customer
  • ● Build the customer database and the secure audit trail required
  • ● Set up cloud hosting, CI/CD pipeline, observability and security

Requirements

  • ● Strong backend development in Node.js / TypeScript is required
  • ● Experience in relational database or non relational database is required
  • ● Experience integrating with third-party APIs is required
  • ● Experience with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines is required
  • ● Comfortable working with sensitive customer data and security best practices is required
  • ● Experience in fintech, insurtech, or another regulated industry is a strong nice-to-have
  • ● Experience building a plugin or adapter style system that needs to support many different external integrations over time is a strong nice-to-have
  • ● Experience with Redis or similar for session/cache management is a strong nice-to-have

Benefits

  • ● Remote work opportunity
  • ● Fast interview process with the aim to complete within 1 week
  • ● Opportunity to work with a leading insurance platform in Southeast Asia
  • ● Opportunity to work with a global team with over 20 nationalities